US Patent Issued to Creative Technology on Nov. 3 for "Workpiece holding device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,703, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Creative Technology Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Workpiece holding device" was invented by Hiromitsu Onodera (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a workpiece holding device capable of holding a workpiece with a sufficient adhesive force and separating the held workpiece without applying a load thereto. The device includes: a flexible base material including an adhesive holding part; a movement roller; and a load receiving plate that supports the base material that holds a workpiece on the adhesive holding part, where the strip-like base material is wound around a roll surface ...